"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." -Banksy

“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” -Steve Jobs

“Lesser artists borrow; great artists steal” -Pablo Picasso

“A good composer does not imitate; he steals,” -Igor Stravinsky

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.” -T. S. Eliot